2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 21 August 2023.

Summary
Nobody in the field was able to make the 66.50m automatic qualifier. In the first round of the final, Andrius Gudžius was the first over 65 with a 65.95m. The next thrower was the defending champion Kristjan Čeh. His 68.31m opened up a big lead. Near the end of the round, Matthew Denny moved into second with a 66.39m. In the second round, Gudžius improved to 66.16m, the Čeh made a big improvement in his lead to 69.27m. Daniel Ståhl stepped into second with at 66.58m, then Mykolas Alekna took it from him with 67.08m. In the third round, Fedrick Dacres moved into third with his 66.72m and the field was put into a new order.

In the fourth round, Denny tossed it 68.24m for a new second place. Then Ståhl pushed everybody down a notch by throwing 69.37m. Alekna moved into third with a 68.85m. Nobody improved in the fifth round so the field was reordered again. As the next to last thrower, Čeh finally got into the 70's barely at 70.02m to retake the lead. On the final throw of the competition, Ståhl launched the winner, the #15 throw in history (Ståhl and Čeh already share #6, Alekna's father holds #2). 71.46m became the new Championship Record.

Records
Before the competition records were as follows:

The following records were set at the competition:

Qualification standard
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 67.00 m.

Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Qualification
Athletes attaining a mark of at least 66.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualify for the final.

Final
Results: